Metcalfa pruinosa (Say, 1830) introduced into the Czech Republic: (Hemiptera, Flatidae)

A large population of the Nearctic planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa (Say, 1830) (Hemiptera, Flatidae), introduced and acclimatized in South Europe in late 1970's, was found in 2001 in an outdoor ornamental gardening shop in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic, being the first record of the species and the family in the country and its northernmost record in Europe. M. pruinosa, probably introduced in the egg stage on ornamental shrubs from Italy, prefered young twigs of Thuja occidentalis, Juniperus communis and Sorbus aucuparia and was also found in numbers on Lilium spp. The damage on affected plants was rather of an aesthetic kind (spots of waxy filaments on shoots), even though a production of honeydew and a consequent development of sooty moulds was also observed. A brief review of published information on the distribution, biology and economic importance of M. pruinosa is given

Contribution to the Auchenorrhyncha fauna of the Pálava Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic): (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha)

Ein Beitrag zur Zikadenfauna des Landschaftsschutzgebiets Pálava (Tschechische Republik). – Es wird eine Liste der Zikadenarten präsentiert, die im Rahmen der Exkursionen zur 17. Mitteleuropäischen Zikadentagung in Mikulov, Süd-Mähren, Tschechische Republik im August 2010 gesammelt wurden. Insgesamt konnten 133 Arten an den 4 Untersuchungsstandorten nachgewiesen werden. Eine Art, Macrosteles spinosus Kwon, 2013, wurde zum ersten Mal in der Tschechischen Republik nachgewiesen, 34 Arten sind neu für die Fauna des Landschaftsschutzgebiets Pálava und das Biosphärenreservat Dolní Morava. Naturschutzfachlich wertvoll ist das Gebiet aufgrund des Vorkommens vieler seltener, stenotoper Zikadenarten, insbesondere von Besiedlern der Trockenrasen, der offenen, trocken-warmen Buschvegetation und der letzten Binnensalzstellen.A list of Auchenorrhyncha species collected from field excursions during the 17th Central-European Auchenorrhyncha Meeting held in Mikulov, South Moravia, Czech Republic in August 2010 is given. A total of 133 species was recorded at four sites. One species, Macrosteles spinosus Kwon, 2013, is recorded for the first time for the Czech Republic and 34 species are new records for the fauna of the Pálava Protected Landscape Area and the Dolní Morava Biosphere Reserve. The area is valuable from a nature conservation viewpoint for the occurrence of many rare stenotopic Auchenorrhyncha species associated particularly with dry grassland vegetation, open xerothermic woodland and remnants of inland saltmarshes

Auchenorrhyncha collected in the Canavese district (Northwest Italy) (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha).

The results of auchenorrhyncha collection excursions in the Canavese district (Italy, Piedmont)are presented, that were held during the 14th Central European Auchenorrhyncha Meeting (07.09.-09.09.2007) and the 4th European Hemiptera Congress (10.09.-14.09.2007) in Ivrea are given. Two new species for Italy, and several new species for Piedmont were found

Insecta Hemiptera collected in the Mont Avic Natural Park (Aosta Valley, Northwest Italy)

The results are given of the Hemiptera collection exscursions in the Monte Avic Natural Park (Aosta Valley, NW Italy) that took place during the 4th European Hemiptera Congress held in Ivrea in September 2007. Altogether 126 species of Heteroptera, belonging to 89 genera, 108 species of Auchenorrhyncha, belonging to 75 genera, and 30 species of Sternorrhyncha Psyllomorpha, belonging to 8 genera were collected at the four different elevation sites of Capoluogo-Tendeur (500-600m a.s.l.), Chevrère (1200-1400m a.s.l.), Dondena (2100-2300m a.s.l.), and Miserin (2588m a.s.l.). Of these species, 2 were new records for Italy: the Mirid Lygus maritimus and Cicadellid Edwardsiana ishidai. New records for Italy are also the Pipunculid Dipteran Tomosvarjella freidbergi and the Halictophagid Strepsipteran Halictophagus languedoci, parasitoids of Auchenorrhyncha